Title: La Via Campesina Policy Documents

Year: 2009

Language: English (Available in French, Spanish and Portuguese)

Content:This publication is a broad
 compilation
 of
 background
 and
 policy
 documents
 which
 have
 been
 widely
 discussed
 within
 our
 movement
 and
 which
 were
 produced
 by
 members
 of
 Via
 Campesina
 and
 its
 leaders
 from
 around
 the
 world.
 The
 texts
 published
 in 
this 
book
 were 
either 
written collectively 
for 
a 
specific
 event
 over
 the
 past
 years
 or
 specifically
 drafted
 by
 some
 Via
 Campesina
 representatives.
 They
 were
 then
 published
 in
 two
 booklets.
 The
 first
 one,
 published
 in
 March
 2008
 was
 discussed
 during 
the 
regional
 meetings 
in 
the
 lead
 up
 to 
the
 5^th Conference 
of
 Via
 Campesina
 that
 took
 place
 in
 Maputo,
 Mozambique,
 from
 the
 16^th to
 the
 23^rd of
 October
 2008.
 A
 second
 booklet
 was
 published
 just
 before
 the
 conference.
 All
 those
 documents
 were
 finally
 discussed
 at
 the
 Conference
 itself
 during
 various
 assemblies
 and
 workshops.

Title: Small Scale Sustainable Farmers Are Cooling Down The Earth

Year: 2009

Edition: La Via Campesina

Language: English (Available in Spanish and French)

Content: This paper presents LVC Position on Climate Change, related to Agriculture. The main message is that small scale sustainable agriculture is the best way to avoid gas emissions. Moreover, this type of peasant agriculture cools down the Earth.

Title: Industrial Agrofuels: Fuel hunger and Poverty

Year: 2009

Edition: La Via Campesina

Language: English, (Available in Spanish, French and Portuguese)

Content: This publication presents a compilation of articles written by grassroots member organizations of the Via Campesina or their close allies from Mozambique, Mali, Haiti, Brazil, Canada and Indonesia. They present an analysis of agrofuel production in their national and local contexts, how it impacts farmers and agricultural workers' lives and work and how farmer organizations are getting involved in this debate. The articles were written in different contexts and for different purposes, but they all reflect the importance of this debate among the members of the movement. We also included an article by François Houtart on the “Scandal of agrofuels” to give a general context to the local stories.

Title: Effects of Industrial Agriculture on global Warming and the potential od small-scale agroecological techniques to reverse those effects

Year: 2009

Edition: The New World Agriculture and Ecology Group

Language: English

Content: According to the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change agriculture is responsible for a significant portion of the increase of greenhouse gases. But not all agriculture has the same impact on global warming. In this report we review the literature on the contributions of agriculture to climate change and conclude that the industrial agricultural system is the main contributor to greenhouse gases, while sustainable smallholder agriculture can reduce greenhouse emissions. This conclusion supports La Via Campesina's call for food sovereignty and their arguments that smallholder sustainable agriculture can cool the planet.

A report to Via Campesina
by The New World Agriculture and Ecology Group
(November 20, 2009)

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Title: Struggle for the Amazon: Capitalism project X Workers and Local Communities' project

Year: 2009

Published by MST – Landless Rural Workers Movement

Language: English

Content: The book compiles texts from scholars and social militants, covering some of the issues about the Amazon, which we are interested in spreading, discuss and look at the facts in depth about this reality. The texts present the interests, dispute and the consequences of the struggle between two large political and economic projects for the Amazon region. On one hand, the project of capital, which has been perpetuated since the Brazil - Colonial; and on the other, the historical project from traditional populations, who have their lives and routes in the Amazon.

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Title: The case of Syngenta – Human rights violation in Brazil, 2008

Year: 2008

Edition: Terra de Direitos, Via Campesina and MST

Language: English

Content: The book explains what is Syngenta in Brazil, the environmental impacts of Syngenta’s activities in Brazil, the Human Rights Violations (The Use of Paramilitary Militias), Syngenta’s claims, the International support for the struggle of the peasants’ human rights,...



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Title: Food Sovereignty for Africa: A Challenge at Fingertips

Year: 2008

Edition: La Via Campesina

Language: English

Content: This publication is a compilation of the documents produced in Nyeleni 2007 (Mali, 23rd to 27th Febbruary 2007) and the outcomes of several conferences held at the same place in November-December 2007.

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Title: Seed Heritage of the People for the good of Humanity (from the Women Seed Forum in South Korea)

Year: -

Edition: La Via Campesina

Language: English

Content: This booklet is the compilation of the pepers and experiences of the women peasants from peasant organizations members of La Via Campesina in the region. The booklet explained about the role of the women peasant in conserve the seed and in another hand we are loosing the native seed we have. This booklet also given example how women peasant save the seed and exchange the seed among the peasant.

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Title: Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform Working document: Commentary on land and rural development policies of the World Bank

Year: -

Edition: FIAN & La Via Campesina

Language: English

Content: On October 2002 the World Bank board of executive directors approved a new rural development strategy Reaching the Poor. In addition the Bank published in May 2003 its Land Policy Research Report- Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction. This publication presents, first, a brief summary of both documents and then, analyzes certain aspects of its con-tent that we consider important, and finally we will make some observations regarding the way the Bank conducted the preparation of these documents.

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Title: Campaign against green deserts

Content: This publication is a collection of articles on different areas, showing the struggles of women and peasants, as part of the campaign against green deserts.

Language: English  (Available in Spanish and French)

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